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Lenten Joke

Jock, the painter, often would thin his paint so it would go
further. So when the Church decided to do some deferred maintenance, Jock was
able to put in the low bid, and got the job. As always, he thinned his paint way
down with turpentine.

One day while he was up on the scaffolding -- the job almost
finished -- he heard a horrendous clap of thunder, and the sky opened.

The downpour washed the thinned paint off the church and
knocked Jock off his scaffold and onto the lawn among the gravestones and
puddles of thinned and worthless paint.

Jock knew this was a warning from the Almighty, so he got on
his knees and cried: “Oh, God! Forgive me! What should I do?”

And from the thunder, a mighty voice: “REPAINT! REPAINT! AND
THIN NO MORE!”